I would like to announce the opening of Open Space's web archives that document this insitution's unique history within the realm of Telecommunications Art.

This particular historical period primarily includes Slow-Scan Transmissions via the PEACESAT network (SSTV) that occured at Open Space until 1978 and then continued by Bill Bartlett on behalf of the Direct Media Association (Pender Island) until 1983. During Open Space's early years, networked environments were seen to be used for not only artistic applications but for educational purposes as well.

Open Space (Victoria, Canada) has existed since 1972 and under the innovative Directorship of Bill Bartlett (1974-1978), Open Space became the epicenter of Sattelite Art.

Please have a look at the new archives page. The digital archives in their entirety aregradually making a public appearance (once permissions from all the artists have been cleared).

In the meantime, I encourage you to read my online interviews with: Douglas Davis, Tav Falco, Tom Klinkowstein, Norman White, Robert Adrian X and Judith Doyle. Other interviews and articles will be added very shortly as many more have already been conducted. Just recently, we have added a re-typed article about SSTV for educational pieces written in 1979 called "Talk Back" by Peggy Cady.

Please have a peek at this beta version of the website and I also encourage you to sign our guestbook.

Jeremy Owen Turner [b. 1974, Victoria, B.C. - Canada] has been a Rhizome member on and off since 2002 (a paying member since 2004). He works as a Digital Archivist, Art-Historian, Avatar Performance Artist and Net Researcher. His degree from the University of Victoria was in Art-History and Music Composition.
As "Wirxli FlimFlam", Turner has just co-formed a new avatar performance art group in Second Life called Second Front - http://www.slfront.blogspot.com
He has completed a contract about Telecommunications Art-History (the Slow-Scan TV Video-conferencing art-scene) on behalf of the Open Space Arts Society in Victoria, Canada.
http://www.openspace.ca/outerspace
He is also an interdisciplinary artist, writer , composer and curator. He is a Co-Founder of the 536 Media Collective in Vancouver. On behalf of 536, Turner worked with the iKatun Collective (Boston) and Jessica Loseby (U.K.) to form the Digital Pocket Gallery.
http://www.ikatun.com/digitalpocketgallery/
In addition, he is a Co-Producer of the very first Machinima Documentary, "AVATARA". The other Producers are Donato Mancini and Flick Harrison.
http://members.shaw.ca/flickharrison/avatara/
To date, he has conducted interviews , posted blogs and written articles about innovations in New Media for: C-Theory, Shift, Intelligent Agent, Nanodot.org (Foresight Institute), Eyebeam.org, Eventcasters (AOL Canada), Extropy, Rhizome, Offbeat and Front Magazine.
He is on the Board of Editors for the Digital Salvage Online Journal hosted by Trace Reddel at the University of Denver, Colorado.
He occasionally lectures about Digital Aesthetics and Net-Art strategies at the University of British Columbia (UBC).
His current interests include Avatars, Bots, and Nanotechnology.
Jeremy lives and works in Vancouver.
Please click the resume link to view his outdated CV.
Also, if you like cutting-edge Avatar bands, check out The Gates and The Hotmails http://www.techworlds.org/thegates.htm
http://www.thehotmails.com
His main art blogs are:
http://www.wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com
http://www.ontodistro.blogspot.com
http://www.rolandquagmire.blogspot.com
http://www.voiceoffire.blogspot.com
http://www.fafftopia.blogspot.com
http://www.irwinziizzw.blogspot.com
Also, he has an additional profile and video on the Saatchi Gallery website: http://video.saatchigallery.com/artist/profile/11301/Jeremy+O+Turner/JeremyOTurner.html
E-mail: jerturner536@yahoo.ca - ideatron@gmail.com